Drimva

NVIDIA

Senior System Software Engineer, Interactive World Models

$184K–$356K

US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 21, 2026

Experience
8+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
Education
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Builds production-quality systems for interactive world models, simulation, rendering, and real-time inference, taking capabilities from prototypes into reliable products and workflows.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and improve systems for world models, simulation, rendering, and real-time inference.
  • Integrate generated worlds, reconstructed scenes, simulation states, and evaluation loops; optimize performance, quality, scalability, and reliability on NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Collaborate across research and engineering teams, integrate capabilities into downstream workflows, and own complex modules or cross-team projects.

What they ask for

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience in at least one relevant area, such as world models, generative video, simulation, robotics, computer vision, or large-scale ML systems.
  • Experience building and optimizing GPU-accelerated software with CUDA and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch.
  • Demonstrated engineering judgment, product delivery experience, ownership of complex work, and clear communication.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with world models, video generation, neural simulation, generative 3D, neural rendering, Gaussian splatting, NeRFs, or reconstruction.
  • Experience with real-time inference, distributed training or inference, GPU optimization, simulation, synthetic data, robotics, autonomous vehicles, rendering, or digital twins; relevant open-source contributions, publications, patents, or technical leadership.

Pay

184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary, Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary, Level 5)

Tools

NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, PyTorch

AI focus

Builds systems for interactive world models, including generative worlds, simulation, rendering, and real-time inference.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)